The Winter Series kicks off with two of Monocle’s favourite guests around the table with editor in chief Tyler Brûlé, editor Andrew Tuck and culture editor Rob Bound in our London studio. Patrick Grant, owner of Norton & Sons on Savile Row, muses over the seasonal lay of the sartorial landscape, while Monocle’s Beirut correspondent Carole Corm considers the pros and cons of a Lebanese Christmas and why she’ll mixing and matching her festivities with London and the middle east. In anticipation of the last-minute holiday shopping yet to do, the panel chimes in on keeping the retail experience cosy and offline and all the while are serenaded by the Winter Series’ inaugural music guest, the Finnish jazz songstress Sofia Finnilä, with some familiar holiday classics and original tracks.
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Sofia Finnilä hails from Helsinki and has been singing and teaching jazz for a decade. Performing at jazz clubs and festivals around Europe her music can be heard worldwide. The Monocle team discovered her music in a Tokyo music shop. Sofia’s first album, "Everything I love", was released in 2008 and is a compilation of the songs closest to her heart, familiar jazz standards and forgotten tunes, sang with her trademark passion and elegance.